• Joe@discuss.tchncs.de
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    16 hours ago

    Read: Lawmakers continue to fail to properly regulate the healthcare industry, leading to uncertainty and litigation potential, therefore nytimes points the finger at AI. Another day, another dollar, in first world USA.

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      12 hours ago

      American lawmakers don’t fall from the sky. They represent the values of the american people. The New York Times has published hundreds of articles about healthcare industry abuses. It’s just that people don’t care.

      Americans overwhelmingly elect lawmakers that oppose regulating the healthcare industry.

      In 2003, the US Congress voted the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act, which banned Medicare, the country’s largest single-payer health care system, from negotiating drug prices.

      Medicare drug price negotiation was eventually authorized in 2022 as part of the Inflation Reduction Act. Half of the US Senate opposed this bill.

      Florida Senator Rick Scott defrauded Medicare/Medicaid of hundreds of millions of dollars to enrich his own healthcare company, using fake invoices. He was still elected.

      Americans aren’t victims.

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        They represent the values of the American people

        I don’t get the impression that most American people vote based on values, but out of fear of “the other party” (and its voter base). Meme driven democracy.

        It’s always amusing to see US folks visiting other countries and realising how things mostly just work. Even in Switzerland, with the world’s second most expensive healthcare spending per person.

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        American lawmakers don’t fall from the sky. They represent the values of the american people.

        Lmao. You must have no idea how American elections work.

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          Sorry, but this is true.

          Mitch McConnell has served in the US Senate for decades.

          He voted against every single labor rights bills. Every. Single. One.

          He voted against paid leave bills. Every. Single. One.

          https://popular.info/p/mcconnell-out-sick-for-two-months

          For decades, the people of Kentucky reelected him. They truly love him.

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            15 hours ago

            You’re arguing against a completely different point.

            I’m not saying these people weren’t elected. I’m saying that American elections results have become increasingly distant from the values of their constituents for multiple reasons.

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    16 hours ago

    “Someone unlocked this story for you”, the page says. But you have to create an account to read it.

    I tried gyo.tc, ghostarchive and wayback machine first, but could not get them to work on my phone. But someone else already created an archive.vn link, so I’ll share that instead for now. I would love to hear from anyone that might be able to find another archive service that works.

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    14 hours ago

    I love the idea of two AIs working against each other. One with the instruction to attempt to deny the claim, the other instructed to get the claim approved. In the end it is just a battle of who will pay more money to keep trying. And then, we can setup rogue bots they file random claims with some cheap opensource model just to burn the insurance companies tokens.